Fellows

Fellowships with digital HKS provide space for thinkers and doers in the field of digital technology committed to the public interest to explore ideas through research and engagement with Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Univesity, and the community of practitioners and researcher at-large.

Nadia Eghbal explores how we can better support open source infrastructure, highlighting current gaps in funding and knowledge. She published "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure" with support from the Ford Foundation. In this report, Nadia Eghbal unpacks the unique challenges facing digital infrastructure, and how we might work together to address them. Nadia is currently building open source community programs at GitHub. She is based in San Francisco.

Jenn Gustetic (@jenngustetic) is the Program Executive for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR/STTR) at NASA Headquarters. The NASA SBIR and STTR programs fund small businesses approximately $200M annually for research, development, and demonstration of innovative technologies that fulfill NASA needs and have significant potential for successful commercialization. Previously, Ms. Gustetic worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Assistant Director for Open Innovation where she was responsible for scaling the use of open innovation approaches like prizes, crowdsourcing, and citizen science across the Federal Government. Among other accomplishments, in this role she co-founded GSA’s citizenscience.gov program and oversaw a cumulative doubling of the use of incentive prizes government-wide (from 350 total prizes conducted from 2010-2014 to 700 total prizes from 2010-2016). Ms. Gustetic holds a bachelors degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more).

Richard Pope (@richardjpope) is the Head of Design at IF (projectsbyif.com), a design studio that works with organizations to design trusted services and further digital rights by approaching hard problems around accountability, machine learning, and privacy through the lens of design. He was part of the founding team at the UK Government Digital Service as product manager for the first versions of GOV.UK, which went on to win the Design of the Year award in 2013, and co-authored the Digital by Default Service Standard, which all UK government digital services must meet. He worked with policy and delivery teams across the UK government redesigning government services in policy areas as diverse as welfare, land registration, and employment. In 2009 Richard setup the digital team at Consumer Focus, the UK’s statutory consumer rights body and co-founded the Rewired State series of hack-days that aimed to get more developers and designers working on issues of digital government. He was involved in the early days of the UK civic tech scene and worked at various start-ups as a technologist and designer, including printing company moo.com and data science platform scraperwiki.com.

Zara Rahman (@zararah) is a Berlin-based researcher, writer, and linguist who is interested in the intersection of power, technology and people. Her past work has included campaigning for an access to information law in Spain, investigating the use and availability of open data in the extractive industries in the Middle East, and supporting data literacy efforts with civil society and journalists across the world with School of Data. In 2015, she co-hosted a podcast exploring issues around colonialism and technology, and she was a 2016/17 fellow at Data & Society based in NYC, where she worked on creative and artistic ways of boosting critical data and tech literacy. She is a regular contributor to Global Voices, where she writes about technology and digital rights in Bangladesh. She currently works at international non-profit organisation The Engine Room, where she has carried out research on use of technology tools for documenting human rights violations, looked into digital security needs of civil society, and supported the growth of the Responsible Data community. As part of a fantastic team, she supports The Engine Room's efforts at strengthening the effective use of technology in civil society, particularly thinking about how complex ideas can be explained in clear and simple ways, and exploring creative ways to engage new audiences around the role of technology in society. With a bit of adjustment time, she speaks fluent French, Spanish and German, and can often be found reading or cycling. She tweets from @zararah, and blogs occasionally at http://zararah.net.

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